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REVIEW: “Beehive” A Colorful, Exhilarating Triumph at Rock Island’s Circa ‘21

June 4th, 2021
REVIEW: “Beehive” A Colorful, Exhilarating Triumph at Rock Island’s Circa ‘21

While I had been inside Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse a few times over the past year (for interviews and an audition), I had not been back before Wednesday to see an actual stage show since January 2020. Like a certain Dorothy once said, “There’s no place like home.” And even with what seems like the final phase of Covid restrictions (patrons seated every other table, no buffet, servers wearing masks), Circa still dependably seems like a comforting, familiar home away from home for me. In the capable hands of Bootlegger Kathryn Calhoun, I was simply overjoyed to be back for a tasty dinner... Read More

Augustana Musical Theater Prof Wins Big Award at Orlando Fringe Festival

June 3rd, 2021
Augustana Musical Theater Prof Wins Big Award at Orlando Fringe Festival

Shelley Cooper came full circle last week at the prestigious Orlando Fringe Festival in Florida, and came home Tuesday with an unexpected award. The multi-talented, 35-year-old Augustana assistant professor of theatre arts earned the Fringe Critic’s Choice for Best Individual Performance, Drama, for her one-woman show, “La Divina: The Last Interview of Maria Callas.” “I was completely shocked that I won,” Cooper said Wednesday. “I mean like to the point that I was waiting, maybe I would be nominated for solo show or this or that, and then when those got announced, I started walking... Read More

Moline’s Quad-City Music Guild Returns With Streamed “Spamalot”

June 3rd, 2021
Moline’s Quad-City Music Guild Returns With Streamed “Spamalot”

Quad-City Music Guild’s first complete musical in a year and a half, “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” will be filmed from Moline’s Prospect Park theater Saturday and available to be streamed online June 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m., and June 13 at 2 p.m. Though the state of Illinois may lift all indoor capacity limits Friday, June 11 (compared to allowing theaters over 200 seats now to be at 25-percent capacity), the decision was made months ago for “Spamalot” not to have in-person performances. “I felt pretty heavily we needed to lock ourselves into one direction, because I was making choices... Read More

Richmond Hill in Geneseo to Audition for John Patrick Shanley Play

June 2nd, 2021
Richmond Hill in Geneseo to Audition for John Patrick Shanley Play

Richmond Hill Players in Geneseo is holding auditions this weekend for its first play in 2021. The auditions, by appointment, will be Saturday, June 5, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 6, 3 to 4:30 p.m., at the Barn Theatre. The play, “Outside Mullingar,” is a 2014 romantic comedy about Anthony Reilly and Rosemary Muldoon, two introverted misfits entering middle age. Directed by Jennifer Kingry, the performance dates will be Aug. 5-8 and 12-15, 2021. In the John Patrick Shanley (“Doubt,” “Moonstruck”) play, Anthony has spent his entire life on his family’s cattle farm in... Read More

Rockford-based Nielsen Trust Ready to Rock Again at Davenport’s Adler Theatre

June 2nd, 2021
Rockford-based Nielsen Trust Ready to Rock Again at Davenport's Adler Theatre

Fifteen months after their first and last live shows, one of rock music’s royal families is more than ready to rock again at Davenport’s Adler Theatre Thursday, June 3. The Nielsen Trust – made up of Cheap Trick guitarist and main songwriter Rick Nielsen, sons Miles (guitar) and Daxx (drums), and Miles’ wife Kelly Steward (vocals) – will perform at 7 p.m. on a bill with Nick Perri & The Underground Thieves, and opening act All Sweat Productions (of the Quad-Cities). As live music has kicked back into gear in a big way locally and globally, Miles Nielsen, 45, is thrilled to be back... Read More

New Quad-Cities Training Series Aims to Promote Racial Healing

June 2nd, 2021
New Quad-Cities Training Series Aims to Promote Racial Healing

As SAL Family and Community Services (SAL) celebrates its 50th year, few people have witnessed the organization’s evolution like Loredia Nunn-Dixon. Born and raised in the Quad-Cities, Nunn-Dixon began 30 years ago as an office assistant, working her way up and then over into childcare and family services. There, she saw the nonprofit’s opportunity to offer the community a fuller range of services. SAL oversees Skip-A-Long Child Development Services, which operates four childcare and learning centers in the Q-C. “Seeing the families that came in, I had a chance to experience firsthand that... Read More

New Mercado Director Excited About Moline Reopening, Expansion to Davenport

June 2nd, 2021
New Mercado Director Excited About Moline Reopening, Expansion to Davenport

After a year with no downtown Moline market, Mercado on Fifth is back to bringing its family-friendly festivities starting this Friday, and a new director is excited to expand the market to downtown Davenport. Mercado on Fifth in Moline (5th Avenue in the area of 11th to 12th streets) will run 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. every Friday, June 4 – Sept. 24. The new Mercado en el Rio in Davenport (Quinlan Court, off River Drive between Brady and Perry streets) will run 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. every second Saturday, June through October. Like other canceled events in 2020, many people missed not having Mercado last... Read More

Davenport’s Figge Art Museum to Premiere Traveling Exhibit From N.Y. Artist

June 1st, 2021
Davenport’s Figge Art Museum to Premiere Traveling Exhibit From N.Y. Artist

Artist Lesley Dill, a renowned New York-based artist, brings historical and literary figures from America’s past to life in a new exhibition curated by the Figge Art Museum, 225 W. 2nd St., Davenport. Opening this past weekend, Lesley Dill, Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me features a collection of hand-painted and sewn textile sculptures and banners created by Dill over the past six years. Her work carefully interweaves imagery, text, and historical visionaries into stunning three-dimensional encounters. Gracefully suspended from the ceiling, the clothing of each figure is delicately embellished... Read More

Boisterous “Charlie Brown” Cast at Moline’s Spotlight Loves Being Back on Stage

June 1st, 2021
Boisterous “Charlie Brown” Cast at Moline’s Spotlight Loves Being Back on Stage

Happiness is…getting back to doing a major musical at the Spotlight Theatre after far too long. Nearly 16 months after staging its last musical, “The Wedding Singer,” the Spotlight (1800 7th Ave., Moline) will open the beloved “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” on Friday, June 4. It’s especially meaningful for Ian Sodawasser – who premiered in Spotlight’s first show, in October 2018, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and directed his first show with “Wedding Singer” in February 2020. “It’s a dream role,” he said Monday of playing Snoopy for the Peanuts musical, who... Read More

QC PastPort Launches to Offer Physical, Digital Tours of the Quad-Cities

May 31st, 2021
QC PastPort Launches to Offer Physical, Digital Tours of the Quad-Cities

You can go back in time without leaving the Quad-Cities with QC PastPort, a new, interactive, physical and digital tour of the cultural history of the American experience as told through the lives of those who passed through or settled here in the Quad-Cities. The project kicked off May 28 in tandem with the water taxi Channel Cat’s launch. You will find QC PastPort signs throughout the Q-C at each of the Channel Cat ports. These ports are located near Riverbend Commons by the Ben Butterworth Parkway, Moline; John Deere Commons behind the Radisson Hotel in Moline; The Isle Casino Hotel in Bettendorf,... Read More